The Toucan Download Chart

About the chart

Our charts list the Toucan tracks which have had the highest
number of downloads across all music sites for a particular year. This
chart is compiled on 1st January every year using figures from the previous
year. All styles of music released at Toucan are eligible - so you'll find a variety of genres here ranging from EDM and electro house through to chillout and progressive trance.

Tracks do not have to be produced or released during the year of the
chart to feature, so you will sometimes see the same tracks in different
years' charts. Usually, tracks released during a particular year perform
better in the following year's chart; this is because, during the year
of release, the track is not online for the full year so is at a disadvantage.

The Top Downloads chart has been compiled annually since 2000, and although
originally a good indicator of the most popular tracks, it is now more
of an indicator of which tracks have had the most exposure. Due to slower
Internet connection speeds back in 2000, people were likely to
only spend time downloading tracks they had listened to and liked, while
faster connection speeds now enable people who have no intention
of keeping tracks to download them just to listen to the music.